Job 17 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,\par\tab The grave is {\i ready} for me.

² Surely there are mockers with me,\par\tab And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.\par

³ Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself;\par\tab Who is there that will strike hands with me?

⁴ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:\par\tab Therefore shalt thou not exalt {\i them}.

⁵ He that denounceth his friends for a prey,\par\tab Even the eyes of his children shall fail.\par

⁶ But he hath made me a byword of the people;\par\tab And they spit in my face.

⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,\par\tab And all my members are as a shadow.

⁸ Upright men shall be astonished at this,\par\tab And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way,\par\tab And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again;\par\tab And I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off,\par\tab Even the thoughts of my heart.

¹² They change the night into day:\par\tab The light, {\i say they}, is near unto the darkness.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house;\par\tab If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father;\par\tab To the worm, {\i Thou art} my mother, and my sister;

¹⁵ Where then is my hope?\par\tab And as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,\par\tab When once there is rest in the dust.\par